“Anything that you can do to protect yourself is always a good thing.”

He said some of the bacteria could even cause pink eye (an extremely infectious disease), skin rashes, and others that could spread cold viruses.

Albuquerque shopper J.P. Pacheco woke up early Saturday. After decorating his yard with tombstones and lights that look like ghosts and pumpkins he went shopping for masks with his girlfriend’s son Fabian.

Pacheco told KOB Eyewitness News even though he saw other people touching and wearing masks he tried on himself he never thought about germs while he was shopping.

“You really don’t realize how much germs and bacteria those masks can carry without them properly wiping them down,” Pacheco said. “It’s pretty disgusting.”